New figures show Arsenal have recorded 100 unique injuries since August 2024, leaving the club top of a recent tally of fitness setbacks across the Premier League, per Sky Sports News. Brighton sit second on 97, Tottenham 90, Newcastle 86 and Aston Villa 85. Manchester City recorded 82, while Chelsea and Man Utd are level on 78. The wider table runs through Wolves (72), Crystal Palace (69), Liverpool (67) and others down to West Ham on 43.<\/p>\n
White was the most likely candidate to tip Arsenal into triple digits. The buccaneering defender has been injured on nine separate occasions over the past 18 months, keeping him out for a yawning 166 days and counting. Intriguingly, Declan Rice is deemed to be the second-most injury-prone Arsenal player, racking up eight different fitness setbacks. However, the formidably durable midfielder has only been forced out for 33 days, forever sustaining a knock which is just as swiftly brushed off.<\/p>\n
Arsenal are currently without a whole glut of defenders, forcing the few fit players to overload themselves in the process of covering for their absent teammates. Arteta has been at pains to lament this \u201creally dangerous\u201d cycle and warned that the fitness woes won\u2019t stop at 100. In the words of the beleaguered manager, Arsenal are “buying tickets for another injury.”<\/p>\n
Across a longer span, the Howden Football Injury Index (via The Times) has calculated the financial toll from 2020\u201321 to 2024\u201325. Manchester United top that five-year list with 399 recorded injuries and a total injury cost of \u00a3154.5 million. Chelsea follow on 357 injuries (\u00a3137.9 million), Newcastle 355 (\u00a3105 million) and Arsenal 322 (\u00a399.7 million).<\/p>\n
United posted the worst injury records in the Premier League in three of the last five seasons (2020\u201321, 2022\u201323 and 2023\u201324). Lisandro Mart\u00ednez is still being gently ushered back after damaging his ACL 10 months ago in February, while Harry Maguire and Matthijs de Ligt are currently battling fitness complaints. That shortage of senior defenders prompted Amorim to start the 19-year-old Ayden Heaven in the middle of his back three for the first time after Bournemouth on Monday, and the hosts shipped four goals at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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